But just now, Billy Billette, you are going home."
But Mollie had been more severely shocked than she was willing to
admit by her experience, and it was some time before the girls visited
the falls or the river again. Meanwhile they contented themselves with
exploring the country about the lodge, taking short trips in the cars
and wondering whether the boys would really be home before the summer
was over.
Their days were not altogether happy, however, for the thought of that
weird thing prowling around in the woods and ready, for all they knew,
to spring out at them at every turn, refused to be banished from their
minds.
Then, too, they thought a great deal about poor Professor Dempsey and
the little ruined cottage in the woods. Somehow, they had an uneasy
feeling that if they had gone to him at the very first minute they had
heard of his trouble they might have helped him. Whereas, they had
waited and-- he had fled.
For a while the idea of a dip in the swimming pool was naturally not
very attractive to Mollie, but at last there came a day when she
herself suggested it and the girls enthusiastically seconded the
motion.
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